Sensory Dancing Fruit Videos

About

Sensory Dancing Fruit Videos refers to 3D-animated sensory videos of various fruit dancing to popular songs produced by the TikTok channel @thesensoryclub. Launched in August 2023, the channel attained immediate virality on the platform with multiple of its videos, most notably of green peas dancing to "Hey Ya!" by Outkast, going viral. In August 2024, the videos notably spread on X / Twitter following a viral tweet and garnered additional attention online.

Origin

On August 1st, 2023, the TikTok^[1] channel @thesensoryclub posted its first five videos comprised of approximately one-minute 3D-animated videos of anthropomorphic fruit, such as watermelons, peas and blueberries, dancing to popular songs like "Mind Yo Business" and "Cumbia Buena." The first video^[2] posted on the channel that same day (shown below) received over 135,000 views and 3,200 likes in one year.

A video of five peas dancing to "Lean Like a Cholo" by Down AKA Kilo, also posted on August 1st, became the first video on the channel to go viral, garnering over 3.3 million views and 512,000 likes on TikTok^[3] in one year (seen below).

Spread

More videos posted by the channel went viral in August 2023 and onwards. Notably, on August 7th, 2023, the channel posted a video of five peas dancing to "Hey Ya!" by Outkast that gained over 24.4 million views and 4.5 million likes on TikTok^[4] in one year (shown below, left).

On December 12th, @thesensoryclub posted a video of five blueberries dancing to "Buddy Holly" by Weezer that received over 691,000 likes on TikTok^[5] in eight months (shown below, right).

The TikTok account amassed over 629,000 followers in one year.

On August 14th, 2024, X^[6] user @laeswrld wrote, "I fucking love sensory fruit videos," with @laeswrld and other users quoting the post with videos from the TikTok channel. For example, on that day X user @laeswrld posted the "Hey Ya!" video with a Killing Myself Postponed caption. The post accumulated over 6.8 million views, 31,000 reposts and 209,000 likes on X^[7] in one day (shown below).

SUICIDE POSTPONED https://t.co/nXDrikK3va pic.twitter.com/VcaofwaOgq

— ಠ_ಠ (@laeswrld) August 15, 2024

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